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Truck drivers across Iran continue rare strike for sixth consecutive day | World News

Truck drivers across Iran continued a rare and prolonged strike for the sixth consecutive day on Tuesday, demanding better working conditions in a sector vital to the country’s economy.While labor strikes are permitted under Iranian law, the scale and persistence of this protest are unusual.The strike, which began in the southwestern port city of Bandar […]

Trump administration moves to cut $100 million in federal contracts for Harvard | World News

WASHINGTON : The Trump administration is asking federal agencies to cancel contracts with Harvard University worth about $100 million, a senior administration official said Tuesday. The government already has canceled more than $2.6 billion in federal research grants for the Ivy League school, which has pushed back on the administration’s demands for changes to several […]

CPAC holds its first meeting in Poland ahead of crucial presidential runoff | World News

WARSAW: The Conservative Political Action Conference, the United States’ premier conservative gathering, held its first meeting in Poland on Tuesday, just five days before a tightly contested presidential election between a liberal mayor and a conservative backed by U.S. President Donald Trump. CPAC chairman Matt Schlapp opened the proceedings with a speech claiming that conservatives […]

France’s National Assembly to vote on long-debated bill legalizing end-of-life options | World News

France’s National Assembly to vote on long-debated bill legalizing end-of-life options (Photo: AP) France’s lower house of parliament, the National Assembly, is voting Tuesday on a bill to allow adults with incurable illness to take lethal medication, as public demands grow across Europe for legal end-of-life options. Tuesday’s vote, expected in the late afternoon, is […]

Who is Tina Peters? Gold Star mother sentenced to prison amid election controversy | World News

On Memorial Day 2025, posts on X trended demanding the release of Tina Peters, a 70-year-old Gold Star mother and former Mesa County, Colorado, Clerk and Recorder, sentenced to nine years in prison. Convicted in 2024 for her role in a 2021 election security breach involving voting machine tampering, Peters has become a polarising figure. […]

Philadelphia Shooting: 2 dead, 9 injured in Philadelphia mass shooting | World News

Two died and eight people were injured in a mass shooting late Monday night in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park.The shooting took place around 10.30 PM near the intersection of Lemon Hill Drive and Poplar Drive, local police told News Action. Police confirmed that at least two of the victims wounded in the incident are juveniles. The […]

Three foreign nationals killed in revenge attacks in South Africa’s Eastern Cape | World News

South African police deployed reinforcements on Monday to the Valencia citrus-farming region in Eastern Cape province following deadly revenge attacks in which three foreign nationals were killed.The violence erupted after a local man was allegedly murdered during a bar fight involving both locals and foreign nationals on Saturday night.According to a police statement quoted by […]

WHO says trucks with medical aid must be allowed into Gaza | World News

GENEVA: A top World Health Organization official deplored Monday that none of the agency’s trucks with medical aid had been allowed to enter the Gaza Strip since Israel ended its blockade.Humanitarian aid has begun trickling back into the Palestinian territory in recent days after more than two months of blocked access.For more than 11 weeks, […]

Struggling German steel giant Thyssenkrupp plans major overhaul | World News

FRANKFURT: Thyssenkrupp said Monday it planned a major overhaul that will split the vast conglomerate into several standalone businesses, fuelling fears about further job losses and a looming break-up of the historic German industrial titan. Once a symbol of German manufacturing might, Thyssenkrupp has fallen into crisis in recent years as high costs at home, […]

Russia denies involvement in arson at properties linked to UK Prime Minister Starmer | World News

LONDON : A top Kremlin official on Monday scoffed at a report that Russia could be involved in recent arson attacks on the private home of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, a building where he once lived and a car that he had owned. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was responding to a Financial Times report […]